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SASH CORD PASTENBR Np. 316,193. Patented Apr. 21, 1885.

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HENRY-SMITH, JR., OF BALTIMORE, MARYLAND.

SASH-CORD FASTENER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 316,193, dated April21, 1885.

Application filed J une 6, 1884. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern,.-

Be it known that I, HENRY SMrTH,Jr., of the city of Baltimore and Stateof Maryland, have invented certain Improvements in Sash- Cord Fasteners,of which the following is a specification. i

This invention relates to an improved device for securing the end of thesash-cord to the sash, as will hereinafter fully appear.

In the accompanying drawings, forming a part hereof, Figure l is a frontview of the window-sash, showing the application of in vention thereto.Figs. 2, 3, 4, and 5 are respectively an exterior side, a sectionalside, an exterior face, and a top view,of the invention on an enlargedscale. Figs. 6 and 7 are views of a part of the invention,also enlarged.

Fig. 8 illustrates a modification in the construction ofthe invention.

Ais a thin metallic box with parallel straight sides and rounded ends.This box is secured in the edge ofthe window-sash B, as shown in Fig. I.

C is a removable box, in shape similar to the one A, adapted to tlooselyin the one A, as shown particularly in Figs. 3 and 4.

The sash-cord D is passed through a hole, a, in the upper end oftheinner box,(),and knotted, the knot being within the box, as shown inFigs. 3 and 4.

The outer or lixed box,A,has a slot, b, at its upper end, and this slotextends to the face of the box to admit of the insertion of the cord D.The xed box A has also slots c, with branches d d', into which the pinse on the box C enter in the union of the two parts of the device.

As the inner box, C, is drawn to the upper end of the box A in thetightening of the cord D the pins e pass to the branch slot-s d, and theinner box is thus prevented from being moved outward while in anelevated position. Should the cord at any time become slackened, thepins e pass to the lower branch slot, d, and the inner box is held thesame as when in an elevated position.

The upper end of the removable box C is retained in the iixed one Aindependently of the pins e by means of a ring, E, having wingsf, whichis placed loosely on the cord D, immediately above the knot, and whenthe cord is drawn tightly this ring rests in the slot b, which hasbranches to receive the Wings f.

The back g of the box A may be cut away, as shown in Figs. 3 and 4.

In Fig. 8 the box A has a slot, b,`iu the back, and the one C hasa`double hook, c', which passes through the said slot. The double hookhas the effect of securing the inner box when the same is either raisedor lowered.

I am. aware that it is not new to employ in a sash-oord fastener a shellwhich is permanently secured in the sash, and a removable block withspring-securing device adapted to t in the said shell, and through whichthe cord is passed and knotted, and such combination of devices I do notclaim; but

In a sash-cord fastener, the outer box, A, having the slotted upper end,and the slots c, with their branches d and d', combined with the innerbox, C, perforated to receive the cord,and having the pins @,Which areadapted to pass through the said slots c and thence to the branches d d,substantially as and for the purpose specified.

v HENRY, SMITH, JR.

Witnesses:

WM..T. HOWARD, Gans. B. OAssADY.

